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What was last movie you watched?
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Titanic
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It is the exact opposite for me, I love movies so much that I just had to be in them.
See I love movies, most just suck.
Titanic
Well-Known Member
I see what you mean, yes there are a lot of sucky movies out there. Then there are also a lot of awesome movies as well. Cheers.
I.S.L.A.M617
Illuminatus
Just came back from Kick *** 2 a little while ago. Loved it.
I.S.L.A.M617
Illuminatus
Titanic
Well-Known Member
It was better than the first! I give it that much!
apophenia
Well-Known Member
Elysium.
If the name itself doesn't give you a clue ... it's about asylum seekers. Though lots of reviews I read seemed to miss that entirely.
It's also about the 1%.
And about how anyone from the west looks like the !% to someone from Afghanistan or Sudan.
It's all that in the context of a science fiction about the super wealthy living on a huge space station, clearly visible from earth. Yet another William Gibson theme 30 years later ... the Tessier-Ashpools and the Villa Straylight (from Neuromancer) clearly inspired this.
Apart from the committee-designed heroic ending (can't leave the audience depressed - bad for business), all in all a thought provoking metaphor, where the concept of who are the good guys and who are the terrorist threat gets turned on its head.
Brilliant.
If the name itself doesn't give you a clue ... it's about asylum seekers. Though lots of reviews I read seemed to miss that entirely.
It's also about the 1%.
And about how anyone from the west looks like the !% to someone from Afghanistan or Sudan.
It's all that in the context of a science fiction about the super wealthy living on a huge space station, clearly visible from earth. Yet another William Gibson theme 30 years later ... the Tessier-Ashpools and the Villa Straylight (from Neuromancer) clearly inspired this.
Apart from the committee-designed heroic ending (can't leave the audience depressed - bad for business), all in all a thought provoking metaphor, where the concept of who are the good guys and who are the terrorist threat gets turned on its head.
Brilliant.
biased
Active Member
They Live (1988).
It's a horror/comedy/action film about someone who puts on sunglasses that tunes him into a 1984-esque reality that humanity is unaware of unless you are part of the resistance group.
It's also just as relevant today as a political commentary as it was when it came out. Perhaps even more so. I believe this is one of the films where John Carpenter established himself as a well respected director too.
It's a horror/comedy/action film about someone who puts on sunglasses that tunes him into a 1984-esque reality that humanity is unaware of unless you are part of the resistance group.
It's also just as relevant today as a political commentary as it was when it came out. Perhaps even more so. I believe this is one of the films where John Carpenter established himself as a well respected director too.
Poeticus
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The book was better.
Poeticus
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I lost faith in her after watching Titanic. She was good in Contagion, though.
But, seriously, The Reader: the novel is much better than the movie. You see the character development of Hanna (Winslet) in a finer way; the book also addresses the foundations of why and what is going on. The movie left too many important things out and to me seemed to have an agenda. It didn't stay true to the book. No movie really does, though.